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Socialism 2026

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Clarissa Redwine

2:30pm CDT

Inside Organizing 101 SuperiorJaz Brisack Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today Jackson Park DRosemary Feurer • Joseph Rathke • Mother Jones Heritage Project

4:30pm CDT

Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed Jackson Park CDouglas Paterson What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense Jackson Park BJuliet DeJesus Alejandre • Antonio Gutierrez • TBD • Rey Wences • ICIRR • OCAD

7:30pm CDT

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition W190Angela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa

9:30pm CDT

Radical Game Night! Michigan/Huron

10:00am CDT

Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry Adler ABCClarissa Redwine • JS Tan

12:00pm CDT

Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism Jackson Park AChicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants

3:00pm CDT

All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy Field ABCHeb Braggs • Ben Eager • Jeremy Jewitt • Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso • Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Jackson Park DJohn Washington • Johannes Favi How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero Propaganda Printmaking Michigan/HuronDanielle Bullock

5:00pm CDT

When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor SuperiorCandace Cohn • Jack Weinberg • Solidarity The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle Jackson Park AMichael A. McCarthy

6:30pm CDT

Songs for Liberation Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

10:00am CDT

From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI Field ABCAlex Hanna • Nathan Kim • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • Center for Political Education • Distributed AI Research Institute The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence Jackson Park BIzzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project

12:00pm CDT

The Present State of People’s History SuperiorIsaac Silver • Peter Cole • Matthew Ray • Left in the Bay Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today Jackson Park DAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization

3:00pm CDT

Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building Jackson Park BToni Gilpin • Andrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas

5:00pm CDT

The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave Field ABCYajaira Cuapio • Ilan Desai-Gellar • Alex Schmaus • United Educators of San Francisco Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment Grant Park ABRuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

7:00pm CDT

Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion W190AAmy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal

8:00pm CDT

Tech Worker Meetup Reggies Chicago (2105 S State St)

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD

10:00am CDT

Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible Dusable ABCWilliam Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet The Long Struggle for UAW Divestment From Israel Bonds, and the Future of Labor for Palestine ErieBill Mullen • Andrew Bergman • Sophia Gurule • Michael Letwin • Labor for Palestine National Network How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life Hyde Park BSomali Organizers from MN